[BNM] Rss feed

[Charlie Wilson]

Thanks for your help everyone - much appreciated. 

Charlie 



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[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Adam Wright
Sent: 04 June 2007 15:57
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Rss feed

As to the current symbols, it's just a character encoding issue (the way the
actual symbols are represented in bytes). The reason you're seeing odd
glyphs is because the default character set doesn't have any sane
representation for them; if you add...

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

or similar to the HEAD section of your site's HTML template, the oddness
should go away - all it does is say "The characters on this page are encoded
via the UTF-8".

As has already been suggested, you could also just use characters that are
representable using the default encoding (ISO-8859-1).

adamw

Charlie Wilson wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> Right - my website is www.perfectlywrite.co.uk, the blog is on 
> blogger.com, and the url for the feed is 
> http://www.perfectly-write-words.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss.
> 
> The guy who told me to set it up gave me this link 
> http://www.rss-tools.com/rss-to-javascript.htm.
> 
> I've uploaded what I've managed to do myself here:
> http://www.perfectlywrite.co.uk/testtest.html. It's not very pretty at 
> the mo, and as you can see, there are some random symbols.
> 
> I hope that helps. Any ideas gratefully received.
> 
> Charlie :)
> 
> 
> 
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> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Paul Silver
> Sent: 04 June 2007 15:33
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] Rss feed
> 
> (Sorry, more techie stuff...) I'd guess what's probably happening is 
> the content-type of the page that's showing the feed is different from 
> what Blogger is sending out through the feed, which is what normally 
> catches me out.
> 
> To try to get a bit clearer & move towards a fix: what language are 
> you using to try to show the feed? (e.g. PHP, ASP, Javascript?)
> 
> If you've managed to show it a bit, where did you copy the code from?
> (i.e. have you got the address of the page you got it from.)
> 
> Is there an example with the problem anywhere we can see?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:21:50 +0100, "Charlie Wilson"
> <charlie at perfectlywrite.co.uk> said:
>> Sorry, that was all Greek to me (honestly, very very untechy).
>>
>> The blog is in blogger.com, and I've set up a feed which works fine, 
>> but creates these glitches with punctuation marks. I was told I 
>> needed to attach a CSS as the feed isn't matching the style of the 
>> rest of my site.
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
>> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of delarge
>> Sent: 04 June 2007 14:58
>> To: Brighton New Media
>> Subject: Re: [BNM] Rss feed
>>
>> yo Charlie - first up you shouldn't need to attach a css file to it...
>> If your content isn't coming out of a database, in other words, if 
>> you write the pages by hand and upload them - then you'll need to do 
>> that with RSS file too.... mirror your content in it...
>>
>> View source on this for an example of a basic, working structure:
>>
>> http://ashab.co.uk/rss/
>>
>> PB
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/4/07, Charlie Wilson <charlie at perfectlywrite.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I wonder if anyone can help me with my website. I am utterly 
>>> untechy, and a friend of mine at AnimNation suggested someone on 
>>> this list may be able to help me out with something
>>>
>>> I'm trying to put an RSS feed on my website to my blog (external) 
>>> and am having problems with the formatting - I've got apostrophes 
>>> and dashes etc showing as question marks. I'm also trying to attach 
>>> a CSS to the feed, with no success.
>>>
>>> If anyone is interested in helping, please drop me a line on 
>>> charlie at perfectlywrite.co.uk.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Charlie
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